Here Are Some Of The Powerful Images From National School Walkout Day At Schools Across The Country

At 10 a.m. on Wednesday, March 14, hundreds of thousands of students and teachers across the country marched out of their classrooms for National School Walkout Day to protest rampant gun violence in the United States, and to stand in solidarity with the students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. The individual protests lasted 17 minutes, representing one minute for each of the 17 victims who lost their lives in the Florida massacre.

An estimated 3,000 individual protests took place from elementary schools to colleges and universities, some holding roadside rallies and others gathering in school gyms or on football fields. Students in Massachusetts, Georgia and Ohio planned to march to the statehouse to lobby for gun control.

The protests were loosely organized by the Women’s March youth group Empower, which advocates for an assault weapons ban, mandatory background checks for all gun sales, and a restraining order law that allows judges to confiscate the weapons of people who exhibit signs of violent behavior. The group’s website states: “Our elected officials must do more than tweet thoughts and prayers in response to this violence.”

Anyone killed by a gun in school = student. Doesn’t necessarily mean during a mass shooting event. Also, probably will make no mention of those killed in gang violence in major metropolitan areas where gun ownership is restricted more than Federal laws.

It’s a study in which they found that between 2002 and 2014 an average of 1300 children under the age of 18 died of gunshot wounds per year. The activists then took that number and multiplied it by the 5 years and (partial year) since Sandy Hook. It’s (for sure) an approximate number of the amount of children killed by gun violence (not all by mass or school shootings) since Sandy Hook and not the exact number.

I agree with you that it would be great to have that exact number. So I assume you support the Dickey amendment being repealed so that scientists can get the funding to properly study gun violence/statistics and we can get a more exact/official number to see the scope of the problem?

@Allison Sanchez I have no doubt the activists used this information to conclude that 7,000 children have died as a result of firearms. I don’t disagree with those numbers at all. The author of this article uses the word “students” to infer school shootings account for the number which is blatantly false. As for the Dickey amendment I will plead ignorance and have to investigate. I don’t think more study is the solution though. Stricter background checks, psychological screenings, gun-show loop hole closing and current law enforcement I do believe could help.